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Find Public IP in Linux Using CLI

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be — Abraham Maslow. Hey guys, ever been in a situation you need to query your public WAN IP without any browser. Glad you came to the right post. Prerequisites dig - Dig stands for (Domain Information Groper) is a network administration command-line tool for querying Domain Name System (DNS) name servers. It is useful for verifying and troubleshooting DNS problems and also to perform DNS lookups and displays the answers that are returned from the name server that were queried. curl - cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various network protocols. The name stands for “Client URL”, which was first released in 1997. wget - GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project. Its name derives from
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Top Three DNS Providers That Provides Good Service in SEA (Southeast Asia)

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If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works. — Jamie Zawinski. Hi guys, this are my top three good DNS (Domain Name System) providers that are really fast, secure and reliable that can be use in Southeast Asia. Cloudflare Cloudflare Public DNS (IPv4) 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 Cloudflare Public DNS (IPv6) 2606:4700:4700::1111 2606:4700:4700::1001 So why Cloudflare 1 ? Choose Cloudflare if you want less than <1ms of domain name resolution. Seriously, they have the fastest name resolution on the internet. Google Google Public DNS (IPv4) 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 Google Public DNS (IPv6) 2001:4860:4860::8888 2001:4860:4860::8844 So why Google 2 ? You will use this if you need an old but still good reliable DNS server. Its been used as a primary name resolution on big companies as well as local workstation. Its much more better than your ISP (Internet Service Provider) provided DNS. Yandex Yandex DNS (IPv4
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Sending Email Using MailKit in ASP.NET Core Web API

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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. — Thomas Merton. Hey guys, recently I’ve been working on an ASP.NET Core project that needed email services to send reports. And I’ve been dumbfounded by some tutorial on how they implemented the email service functionality. Some are over complicated while others were over simplified. So here I am creating yet another tutorial for sending email using MailKit and .NET Core . Let’s jump in! Prerequisites First of all, you must have a . NET Core 3.1 SDK (Software Development Kit) installed in your computer and also I assumed you are currently running Windows 10 or some Linux with proper environment set. And MailKit on which this package becomes a de-facto standard in sending emails as its being preferred and recommended by Mi
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Disable mDNS and SSDP Discovery in Google Chrome

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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. — Orson Welles. Hi guys, if you ever check your task manager you’ll notice chrome is listening to port 5353 on Linux. Did you know you could stop it? as what this sub-process is specifically doing – listening and doing some device probing like an auto discovery which is similar to avahi . In order to disable this Chrome functionality you need to first create a directory and policy file. You could do this by executing the command below. sudo mkdir -p /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/ sudo touch /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/block_mdns_ssdp.json What this does is first create a directory inside the /etc/opt/chrome which will be used to store manage policies and create the initial policy file that we would be editing. Then we edit the block_mdns_ssdp.json file that we created earlier and then we put the contents
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